Mmm Gruppe M

[AlpinaAl]

Just finished fitting a Gruppe M inducton kit to my friends E46 M3, kits is really nice and looks the nuts, its not to noisey either which is good, fitting was easy with the instructions provided.

What you reckon guys.

Before
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v231/alpinaal/103_0333.jpg

After
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v231/alpinaal/103_0335.jpg

Dans car
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v231/alpinaal/103_0338.jpg

[Shuriken]

Nice! Improves the engine bay very nicely.

Shuriken.

[Afif]

yea definately a nice improvement!

[peppernick]

Still the best looking induction kit out there [ok

Although an open or trumpetted induction kit make more noise.

[AlpinaAl]

This guys very conservative, he dosent like the car to look or sound anything speacial but it does go like a stabbed rat. Saying that we did fit De-cat pipes to it a while ago and when you give it a bit it does sound nice.

Was really suprised the induction kit makes hardly any noise but seems to make a noticable difference, have to agree with ou Nick it looks the muts :cool:

[Raja_SMGII]

Agree with pepernick - it is really nice eye candy! Expensive eye candy lol

However, there is a lot of controversy surrounding the benefits - some say it provides no power increase whatsoever; I noticed no increase in sound, which was disappointing. I did feel a better more crisp throttle response though; at the time of install I sprayed my MAF sensor with some isopropyl alcohol so I'm uncertain which did the most good - One thing I can say is the carbon fibre/Kevlar design will surely keep intake temps down this season - a lot more than the stock air box which looks like a small black oven!

A great design feature is how it has two intakes - one from the kidney grill and one underneath which I was able to align up perfectly to the CSL snorkel intake :) I could put my hand up the CSL intake [read and actually touch the cone filter - it will get a LOT of cold air through there [cool

My pics are very different:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/AnniGti/GruppeM/After_intake.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/AnniGti/GruppeM/gruppe_M_2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/AnniGti/GruppeM/After_intake3.jpg

Problem with the GruppeM M3 intake is it is very difficult to Dyno accurately since you need accurate air velocity - i.e. driving fast through the road sucking the air producing the "Ram-charge" effect - how can you produce this on a Dyno with fans blowing air? Stick you head out of your window at 70mph to get an idea of the difference :D

[M5 SC]

Looks the f**king business mate... end of. [writesmil

[sonny.j.h]

vey nice mate, the real Mc Coy, its the holy grail of induction kits!

I have a replica one, and I was well happy with the results, and they look good too!